CS 6742

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CS 6742
Natural Language Processing and Social Interaction

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023. Courses of Study 2022-2023 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

More and more of life is now manifested online, and many of the digital traces that are left by human activity are increasingly recorded in natural-language format. This research-oriented course examines the opportunities for natural language processing to contribute to the analysis and facilitation of socially embedded processes. Possible topics include sentiment analysis, learning social-network structure, analysis of text in political or legal domains, review aggregation systems, analysis of online conversations, and text categorization with respect to psychological categories.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: Ph.D. and MS students.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: CS 2110 or equivalent programming experience, a course in artificial intelligence or any relevant subfield (e.g., NLP, information retrieval, machine learning).

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 6742

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9758 CS 6742   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022

    • Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Seats are restricted to CS and IS PhD students and CS MS students. See enrollment webpage for details: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courseinfo/enrollment/cs-6000-level-courses